***SPOILERS** A story of both revenge and redemption with a very confused and bitter Jimmy Graham, Jan-Michael Vincent,not knowing if to make up with his just released from the slammer or prison dad, Harry, Robert Mitchum, or beat his brains out! That in Harry screwing up his life as well as his own by murdering, in a drunken rage, his mom right in front of him when he was six years old.
Tracking down his dad to the seaside New Jersey town of Wildwood where he works as a car mechanic it takes a few days for Jimmy to introduce himself to Harry who at first, by sitting outside his trailer park camper, thought he was just a local hippie high on pot. Harry not at all wanting anything to do with his long lost son who's testimony at his murder trial convicted him, in Harry being drunk and out of his mind, of 2nd degree murder he later takes a shine to him and invites Jimmy to stay in his camper along with his live in girlfriend Jenny Benson, Brenda Vaccaro.
Not knowing if to strike back or not at his dad from killing his mom and ruining his life, Jimmy spent the last 12 years in and out of orphanages, Jimmy soon targets the innocent,in him mom's murder, Jenny in order to get back at his dad. Drunk like he old man was when he murdered his mom Jimmy tricks Jenny into seeing him at a local chicken coop, where they illegally train rosters in the art of cock-fighting, and brutally attacks and rapes her. Now feeling guilty at what he did Jimmy takes off to Pennsylvania to the house where he once lived in, that's now a bar and bordello, where his mom was murdered. Calling up his dad and confessing his crime,raping Jenny, Harry comes shooting out to the place in his battered Dodge pick-up to give him the beating he should have gave him when Jimmy testified against him in open court!
***SPOILERS**** A bit confusing, like Jimmy Graham, to say the least the film "Coming Home" is never boring in that Robert Mitchum is staring in it. You like Jimmy get to like Robert Mitchum's character Harry Graham despite him being a very unlikable and uncouth, especially with his off-color and bathroom jokes, guy in the movie. Yes Harry never makes excuses in what he did and tries to get his life back together after serving 13 years behind for doing it. It in fact takes Jimmy a lot longer to get over his dislike and hatred of his dad and even goes over the edge,by raping Jenny,when he eventually loses control of himself. It's in the final few minutes of the movie that both Harry and Jimmy, who almost got killed by him, came to a mutual understanding. In that by putting the past behind them will finally put an end all this resentment as well as violence that may very well, if it continues, end up killing both of them!
Tracking down his dad to the seaside New Jersey town of Wildwood where he works as a car mechanic it takes a few days for Jimmy to introduce himself to Harry who at first, by sitting outside his trailer park camper, thought he was just a local hippie high on pot. Harry not at all wanting anything to do with his long lost son who's testimony at his murder trial convicted him, in Harry being drunk and out of his mind, of 2nd degree murder he later takes a shine to him and invites Jimmy to stay in his camper along with his live in girlfriend Jenny Benson, Brenda Vaccaro.
Not knowing if to strike back or not at his dad from killing his mom and ruining his life, Jimmy spent the last 12 years in and out of orphanages, Jimmy soon targets the innocent,in him mom's murder, Jenny in order to get back at his dad. Drunk like he old man was when he murdered his mom Jimmy tricks Jenny into seeing him at a local chicken coop, where they illegally train rosters in the art of cock-fighting, and brutally attacks and rapes her. Now feeling guilty at what he did Jimmy takes off to Pennsylvania to the house where he once lived in, that's now a bar and bordello, where his mom was murdered. Calling up his dad and confessing his crime,raping Jenny, Harry comes shooting out to the place in his battered Dodge pick-up to give him the beating he should have gave him when Jimmy testified against him in open court!
***SPOILERS**** A bit confusing, like Jimmy Graham, to say the least the film "Coming Home" is never boring in that Robert Mitchum is staring in it. You like Jimmy get to like Robert Mitchum's character Harry Graham despite him being a very unlikable and uncouth, especially with his off-color and bathroom jokes, guy in the movie. Yes Harry never makes excuses in what he did and tries to get his life back together after serving 13 years behind for doing it. It in fact takes Jimmy a lot longer to get over his dislike and hatred of his dad and even goes over the edge,by raping Jenny,when he eventually loses control of himself. It's in the final few minutes of the movie that both Harry and Jimmy, who almost got killed by him, came to a mutual understanding. In that by putting the past behind them will finally put an end all this resentment as well as violence that may very well, if it continues, end up killing both of them!